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Great Shakespeare actors : Burbage to Branagh / Stanley Wells.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.Description: xiv, 308 pages : portraits (black and white) ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780198703297
  • 9780198769729
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.0280922 23 WEL
Contents:
1. Richard Burbage 2. Will Kemp 3. Robert Armin 4. Thomas Betterton 5. Charles Macklin 6. David Garrick Who Was the First Great Shakespeare Actress? 7. Sarah Siddons 8. George Frederick Cooke 9. John Philip Kemble 10. Dora Jordan 11. Edmund Kean 12. William Charles Macready 13. Helen Faucit Who Was the First Great American Shakespeare Actor? 14. Ira Aldridge 15. Charlotte Cushman 16. Edwin Booth 17. Henry Irving 18. Ellen Terry 19. Tommaso Salvini Times of Change 20. Edith Evans 21. Sybil Thorndike 22. Charles Laugh ton 23. Donald Wolfit 24. Ralph Richardson 25. John Gielgud 26. Laurence Olivie -- 27. Peggy Ashcroft 28. Michael Redgrave 29. Paul Scofield 30. Donald Sinden 31. Richard Pasco 32. Ian Richardson 33. Judi Dench 34. Derek Jacobi 35. Ian McKellen 36. Janet Suzman 37. Antony Sher 38. Simon Russell Beale 39. Kenneth Branagh.
Summary: Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times to our own. They include both English and American performers such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Cushman, Ira Aldridge, Edwin Booth, HenryIrving, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, and.
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Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2015.


1. Richard Burbage 2. Will Kemp 3. Robert Armin 4. Thomas Betterton 5. Charles Macklin 6. David Garrick
Who Was the First Great Shakespeare Actress? 7. Sarah Siddons 8. George Frederick Cooke 9. John Philip Kemble 10. Dora Jordan 11. Edmund Kean 12. William Charles Macready 13. Helen Faucit
Who Was the First Great American Shakespeare Actor? 14. Ira Aldridge 15. Charlotte Cushman 16. Edwin Booth 17. Henry Irving 18. Ellen Terry 19. Tommaso Salvini
Times of Change 20. Edith Evans 21. Sybil Thorndike 22. Charles Laugh ton 23. Donald Wolfit 24. Ralph Richardson 25. John Gielgud 26. Laurence Olivie
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27. Peggy Ashcroft 28. Michael Redgrave 29. Paul Scofield 30. Donald Sinden 31. Richard Pasco 32. Ian Richardson 33. Judi Dench

34. Derek Jacobi 35. Ian McKellen 36. Janet Suzman 37. Antony Sher 38. Simon Russell Beale 39. Kenneth Branagh.

Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times to our own. They include both English and American performers such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Cushman, Ira Aldridge, Edwin Booth, HenryIrving, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, and.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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